Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures (Hardcover)

As the uncertainty of global and local contexts continues to amplify, the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures responds to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias. It features essays that explore the challenges of how to think about compelling futures, what these better futures might be like, and what personal and collective practices are emerging that support the creation of more desirable futures. The handbook aims to find a sweet spot somewhere between despair and naive optimism, neither shying away from the massive socio-environmental planetary challenges currently facing humanity nor offering simplistic feel-good solutions. Instead, it offers ways forward-whether entirely new perspectives or Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge perspectives that have been marginalized within modernity-and shares potential transformative practices. The volume contains contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners with diverse backgrounds and experiences: a mix of Indigenous, Black, Asian, and White/Caucasian contributors, including women, men, and trans people from around the world, in places such as Kenya, India, US, Canada, and Switzerland, among many others. Chapters explore critical concepts alongside personal and collective practices for creating desirable futures at the individual, community, organizational, and societal levels. This scholarly and accessible book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of leadership studies, social innovation, community and organizational development, policy studies, futures studies, cultural studies, sociology, and management studies. It will also appeal to educators, practitioners, professionals, and policymakers oriented toward activating creative potential for life-affirming futures for all.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
Release date:	December 2022
First published:	2023
Editors:	Gabrielle Donnelly • Alfonso Montuori
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-89718-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology
LSN:	0-367-89718-0
Barcode:	9780367897185

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